HI!... 4.6 = not OPTIMA ! bwaaaaaaa!

 

optima or not atleast i can spell

 

Ive seen these things in the summit catalog. I'll have to do this when i replace my battery.

 

Hehe, I just park another vehicle infront of me, or grab a spare battery and hook a set of jumber cables up to it. Then hook the other end to your fender or something metal, and the other end to the relay thingy under the cover on the firewall.

I fear disconnecting my battery because of all my radio settings.

 

aww come on, do it like a man and leave the engine running. no need to get the jumper cables out.

 

Haha, maybe next time....or not

 

The cheapo 1000amp wallyworld everstarts are whats in our fleet. Only had one fail before the three year warrenty and just took it back for a new one no questions.

Adrianspeeder

 

I don't know if it is of great importance, but clean the new terminals and your battery cables, you know with the turning post cleaner brush tool. After that, drop it in and add a fairly liberal amount of silicone dielectric compound, or brake caliper lube, they are called both on the Motorcraft tube. Install and go. Using this silicone on exposed electrical connections aides in preventing corrosion in a big way. Do this on the starter connections (under a red cap on the starter) especially- very helpful.

 

Hey Neal... the red tops are the same... right? I had one red top that lasted through two cars before I sold it for $25 less than I bought it for and the kid that bought it still has the battery in his car today. Of course I don't think I ever managed to drain that thing dead because of the reserve cell.

 

HI!... The YELLOW top is a deep cycle battery. The red top is not.

 

correct^

 

My understanding was the red tops were for starting... they keep an extra cell of juice that never gets run down or something so they are guaranteed to start. My understanding of the yellow top was that was the battery to have if you had a major electrical pull such as a huge sound system... Am I off on my understanding?

 

If you do an investigation of battery construction, you will see the differences are in what and how the plates are made of, and the differences each plate type is engineered for.
For example a deep discharge battery is not designed for starting an engine using high current discharge rates. The plates are not built to allow high current exchange rates but for lower current longer exchanges.
Deep discharge dosn't mean you can draw from that type longer for starting purposes, by intent.
The differences also have an effect on recharge rates.
The Optima battery has circular plates stacked in a vertical plane as opposed to a regular construction that hang plates from the top plane of the case.
Some of the advantages of round plate stacking are little to no plate flaking causesing cell shorting, better vibration failure control.
I have worked with super large versions of these type batteries as long as 30 years back and they do tend to have very long and reliable life spans.

 

Now that's an answer... Where is the "applause smiley"?